VacationSelector

Biarritz or Venice?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BiarritzVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzVenice
Score6769
Swim season months24
Beaches 10 km4320
Coast distance1 km4 km
Water distance1 km4 km
Places to eat. Venice leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzVenice
Score3245
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1310
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 41 points.41
BiarritzVenice
Score3172
Museums within 10 km1657
Museums within 2 km of centre545
Share of museums within 2 km %3179
Unesco sites within 50 km25
Nightlife. Venice leads by 20 points.20
BiarritzVenice
Score1535
Drinking venues within 4 km105342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7889
Nightclubs within 4 km63
Nature & day trips. Biarritz leads by 13 points.13
BiarritzVenice
Score3017
Protected land share 50 km %64
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6470
Park area within 2 km32 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 36 points.36
BiarritzVenice
Score2157
Tourist attractions within 2 km272
Park area within 2 km32 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 60 points.60
BiarritzVenice
Score2383
Notable places within 2 km15464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 6 points.6
BiarritzVenice
Score6268
Price level global73.764.9
Daily budget€160€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 1 points.1
BiarritzVenice
Score6566
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBiarritzVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 5 m
€268-289
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
no fares
EAS · 23 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
PalmaPMI
1 h 25 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 20 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
MarrakechRAK
2 h 15 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TSF · 26 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBiarritzVenice
Official languageFrenchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m2 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzVenice
City population26,206250,369
People per km²2,240602
Museums within 10 km852
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
Distinct cuisines in the centre2446
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.